Experts - TOC
This is a different kind of Table of Contents than you’ve see elsewhere under Audience TOCs.
While most climate professionals are focused on our particular climate silo, wouldn’t it be great to be able to jump to any other relevant silo. Anyone thinking seriously about geoengineering, for example, would ideally bring to the conversation an understanding of risk and risk management, economics and cost-benefit analysis, ethics and philosophy, atmospheric sciences and the functioning of complex systems, and societal decision-making and governance.
The Climate Web’s goal is obviously not to educate climate experts about their areas of expertise. Instead, the Climate Web is designed to help experts explore silos other than their own. Everyone talks about breaking down disciplinary silos; the Climate Web actually makes that possible.
How Experts Can Use the Climate Web
The Climate Web can be useful to you as an expert in a number of ways.
- To access climate topics you might not have had the opportunity to explore before.
- To make sure your work is available to relevant audiences. The goal of the Climate Web is for good ideas to get disseminated. Far more people would benefit from the ideas in many papers and reports than will ever see those paper or reports. If you explore the Climate Web you'll see what we're trying to do in that respect, making it possible to easily scan the scope of many experts’ work without having to read a dozen reports or paper.
If the Climate Web contains multiple pieces of work by a single author, there is likely to be a thought organized as Last Name, First Name. If you input that combination into the Search field at the bottom left of your screen, it should turn up.
If it doesn't, try searching for the last name alone. All sources (books, reports, journal papers) are organized via the formula:
Year Last Name_Title
The Search should turn up any documents associated with that last name. Note that we only use the lead author's last name to organize materials in the Climate Web.
We've been able to do much more advanced work with some authors' materials. Below, for example, is a partial screenshot of the works you can find in the Climate Web from communications expert Dr. Susanne Moser. All of the listed works are integrated into the hundreds of topics organized in the Climate Web. You can jump to the spot in the Climate Web shown in the image below through this link.
But there is something else that would make this information a lot more useful as potential actionable knowledge, namely not having to read all of the documents to know what's in them.
The Extracted Materials shown below (partial screenshot) pulls together ideas extracted from Susanne Moser's work. The Knowledgebase allows users to scan on a single screen many of the key ideas found in dozens of her publications. All extracted ideas and graphics remain linked to their original source document, making it easy to dig deeper. You can jump to the spot show through this link.
We welcome experts' assistance in adding new materials to the Climate Web.